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What's New...

Find out what's new in the exciting latest release from Xara. Premium 11 now includes sticky objects and some great new animation effects, and the responsive web design feature is now in both versions!

Templates...

Xara Web Designer 9 is a good WYSIWYG web builder, easy to use and capable of producing quality results. If you need to produce anything more than a simple personal site we'd recommend the Premium edition, though - it's more expensive, but the extra power is worth the cost.

One of the major technical improvements to this version is the move to 64-bit processing. If you’re already using the 64-bit version of Windows, you can address the full amount of RAM in your machine. This improves the overall speed and fluidity of Web Designer 9, consequently making the designing process more enjoyable.

Once you become familiar with the interface, Web Designer like Graphics Designer becomes easy and intuitive to work with. Consider that the DTP facilities in Web Designer Premium put it two steps ahead of all the free Website creation tools - simpler, faster, and more powerful features. Finally, Xara Web Designer has dozens of templates for creating and displaying your own Presentations which can be run locally or online. At the $99 price, ignore Xara Web Designer Premium at your peril.

Xara Web Designer 9 (Premium) is ideal for anyone who wants to create their own Web site without learning HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Ajax and all the complicated things that have become inherent to Web site creation. We tested all the functionalities (adding widgets, graphics, animations, forms, etc.) and found them to be clever, easy to use, and easy to learn. The program offers true WYSIWYG editing of CSS based Web sites (which is not easy to accomplish!). For 32-bit and 64-bit versions of 64-bit Windows.

It’s hard not to like Xara Web Designer 9 Premium. If you’re looking for a DTP-friendly approach to building page-driven websites then it’s got pretty much everything you need to design attractive, yet easy-to-navigate and quick-to-load websites.

At first glance it looks beginner-friendly: pick a template, import your text and graphics, and build your site page-by-page at a time. But that does Web Designer a disservice, because if you delve deeper, you’ll find it has all the tools you need to design more complex sites that are attractive to look at, easy to navigate and bursting with support for all the latest technologies, from Flash-based animations to interactive widgets.